Black Thoughts For Multi-Cultural Readers

It
is far easier to lie to people, than to convince them that they have been lied
to… Mark Twain

After the 2016 Presidential
election, the Green Party’s Jill Stein raised the $2.5 Million fee that Michigan required to demand a recount. On the other hand, Detroit’s
Democratic Party leadership, including Congressman John Conyers, made no effort
to demand a recount though they knew a majority of Detroit’s black votes had
been illegally suppressed.

In
2004, the Green Party presidential candidate, Davis Cobb successfully challenged
the use of defective electronic voting machines in Ohio and the election
official responsible for the deployment of the defective voting machines went
to jail. California banned the use of fraudulent machines following the Green
Party’s 2004 challenge.

“I’ve demonstrated that in just a few seconds,
anyone can install vote-stealing malware on those machines that silently alters
the electronic records of every vote.” J. Alex Halderman, professor of Computer
Science and Engineering University of Michigan

Trump
and Michigan Attorney General, Bill Schuette, fought the Green Party's demand
for a recount of the 2016 vote by arguing that Jill Stein had no proof of voter
fraud and the Green Party’s demand for a recount was an abuse of the state's
recount law. The Republicans argued that the goal of Michigan ‘s recount
law was to assist a legitimately aggrieved candidate and not to audit the
state's election process. Since neither Clinton nor the Democratic Party claimed
to be aggrieved by Detroit’s fraudulent voter results, the court found that Jill
Stein and the Green Party had no standing to demand a recount.

Stein
pointed out that Michigan’s voting system tallied 75,000 ballots that had no
presidential selection. The 75,000 ballots cast without any presidential
selection were twice the number of blank presidential ballots cast in 2012. Trump
won Michigan by only 10,704 votes. Had there been a recount, there
would have been physical evidence that the ballots were marked but not counted
and Donald Trump would not have been elected president of the United States. But,
apparently, neither the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton nor Representative John
Conyers wanted Detroit’s black vote counted.

Democrats
Didn’t Challenge Results In Michigan … Or
Anywhere Else

After the election, the Democratic Party and Hillary
Clinton did nothing to challenge the fraudulent election results either in
Michigan, Wisconsin or anywhere else. Democratic Party post-election activities
focused entirely upon a media campaign to convince the American people that the
Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee and interfered with the
2016 elections. It was a stunning repeat of what happened in the 2000 elections,
when Al Gore and the Democratic Party did not demand the Florida recount that
would have made Al Gore president. Why did the ‘liberal’ Democrats rollover so
easily for Donald Trump and the Republican Party?

One possible answer is that ‘liberal’ Democrats get
their millions in campaign contributions from the same billionaires who
contribute to ‘right wing’ Republicans. These billionaires bought the 2016
elections, so that the Republicans could reduce their taxes and so that the
Democrats would stay out of the way. Big corporations control Democratic
liberals as thoroughly as they control Republicans. Big Oil’s control over the
California Democratic Party and its ‘liberal’ Democratic governor, Jerry Brown
is an example of their control.

Jerry Brown and the Democrats have not only paved the
way for Big Oil to drill off the California coast, they have given oil fracking
companies unlimited license to destroy the environment. At the height of
California’s drought, at the time Democrats were forcing Californians to pay
skyrocketing water rates and endure water rationing, Brown allowed oil frackers
to waste billions of gallons of water and pollute billions of gallons more. Not
only are oil frackers polluting California’s drinking water, many believe that Jerry
Brown’s oil fracking policies may have contributed to the massive wildfires
that engulfed thousands of acres in northern California and destroyed thousands
of homes and businesses. Still, without any Democratic Party resistance, California
continues oil fracking programs. Another reason that the Democratic Party might
have allowed Trump to win the White House has to do with Israel.

As many as 40 Democratic Congressmen and Senators hold
dual American/Israeli citizenship. The number of state and local political
officials with dual American/Israeli citizenships in the Democratic Party are
in the thousands. Even in ordinary circumstances, these Democrats are more
loyal to Israel than to their American constituents. However, since Donald
Trump is a Jew and Benjamin Netanyahu wanted him in the White House, the entire
Jewish establishment bankers, Wall Street, the media as well as the dual
American/Israeli officeholders coordinated their resources to get Trump into
the White House. This explains the true nature of the antagonism between Donald
Trump and the ‘deep state’ and why the Democratic Party did not challenge the
fraudulent Detroit vote. But it does not excuse John Conyers.

John Conyers Knew About
The Fraud

On Friday, September 16, 2016, two
months before the November presidential election, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund sponsored
a 2016 Voter Protection Series conference in Washington,
D.C.

The Congressional Black
Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 2016 Voter Protection Series, in cooperation with Rep.
John Conyers and the Judiciary Brain trust, the Voting Rights Caucus, and the
Voting Rights Alliance, aims to highlight challenges and solutions in
order to overcome restrictive voting laws and ensure voter turnout in the
upcoming elections. The series will open with two policy panel discussions
aimed at strategizing around the dilution of the Voting Rights and the negative
implications of voter suppression. …NAACP LDF
Conference Overview

The most basic
principle of the American democracy is free elections. Whenever the
fairness or legitimacy of free elections is in doubt, significant legal
remedies are available. John Conyers, the Congressional Black Caucus and the
Democratic Party were aware that the Republicans intended to steal the election
by suppressing the legitimate black vote, yet they did not avail themselves of
the legal redress that the Green Party sought. Any reasonable person must
conclude that John Conyers did not want to prevent Trump from entering the
White House.

Trump’s
presidency is no small thing, Trump has elevated a confirmed fascist to the
Supreme Court, stripped civil rights from minorities, instituted the Muslim
ban, directed the FBI to target so-called black identity terrorists, incarcerated
undocumented aliens in concentration camps and black sites inside and outside
the United States, dismantled legal and institutional protections for
consumers, minorities and the environment and allowed billionaire oligarchs to
loot the treasury in preparation for the complete dismantling of Medicaid,
Medicare and Social Security entitlement programs. The belief that Robert
Mueller ___ a member of the deep state ____ is standing between the complete fascist
takeover of the United States government is a fantasy. The deep state has been been
planning the fascist takeover since the end of WWII. They just do not want to
share power with Israel and intend to stamp out Trumpism not fascism.

Conyers’
Reparation Bill: A Promise Of Heaven On Earth

Since
1989, Rep. John Conyers has
repeatedly introduced—HR. 40— known as the black reparations bill. Conyers’ reparations bill recommends that a
seven-member commission with an
$8-million budget be appointed to examine the legacy of slavery. The commission
would complete a study and recommend to Congress "appropriate remedies"
including a formal apology from the Government of the United States to the
descendants of former slaves. The commission would also determine whether
"any form of compensation to the descendants of African slaves was
warranted." The bill acknowledged the fundamental injustice, cruelty,
brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States.

Conyers’ HR-40 was
similar to the law that apologized for the internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II. That law provided a $20,000 cash payment to each surviving former
internee. Though Conyers said that his commission wouldn’t necessarily provide
monetary compensation to descendants of slaves, his bill never went anywhere.
The high point for HR-40 came in December 2007, when it received its first
public hearing by the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and
Civil Liberties. HR-40 did not even advance to the full House Judiciary
Committee, despite the fact that John Conyers, himself, was chairman of the
full committee. Some commentators believed that Conyers’ HR-40 was a
‘grandstand play.’ Conyers’ reparation bill was merely intended to give blacks
a view of the “promise land” but not take them there.

Black politicians are good at grandstanding before the
media and in front of friendly audiences, but few of them have the grit,
intelligence or leadership needed to challenge, change or combat white racism. Strutting
about, collecting their perks, and pretending to live in a post-racial society,
black leaders serve their white masters. Andrew Young, a former preacher and disciple
of Martin Luther King perfectly fits the mold of the black leader chosen to
serve white folks interests.

“White
Nationalists Are The Forgotten Americans”

In the wake of the white nationalist riots in
Charlottesville, Virginia, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd interviewed Andrew Young, former mayor
of Atlanta, US Congressman and ambassador
to the UN. The noted non-violent civil rights advocate made a career of serving
white folk’s interests. At the time, Donald Trump was pushing the narrative
that the white nationalists in Charlottesville were merely expressing their
legitimate concerns and asked Andrew Young to be his surrogate on Chuck Todd’s MSNBC
Meet The Press program. Andrew Young
was only too happy to serve Donald Trump.

Once Trump became President, Andrew Young occasionally
received calls from Trump seeking advice. Donald Trump was a great admirer of Andrew
Young’s plantation philosophy. What the president especially admired was
Young’s disrespect for the concept of black manhood. So Trump decided to use
this intellectually decrepit and morally bankrupt old black man to defend his
Charlottesville narrative. And Andrew Young was only too happy to apply his well-known
plantation philosophy to defend the president.

“I feel uncomfortable condemning the Klan,” Young told Chuck Todd. “They
are almost the poorest of the poor. They are the forgotten
Americans. Klansmen have been used, abused and neglected. And that just doesn’t
make sense in today’s world.”

Furthering Trump’s racist narrative, Young made the blatantly assertion
that black people, themselves, were responsible for provoking white nationalists.
“The white nationalists see
progress in the black community and on television and everywhere and white
nationalists don’t share in this progress.” Todd remained impassively silent
with this statement for several seconds before asking the former civil rights
preacher how he came to his unique political philosophy.

Young responded
that he had been born 50 yards from the German American Bund and Nazi party headquarters. As
a child, Young claimed that his proximity to American Nazis during WWII gave
him the ability to deal with Nazism and white supremacy from the time he was
four years old. His father had advised Young to get smart and find a way
to help the Nazis and klansmen. This was how Young developed his own personal strategy
for dealing with white racism ____ a strategy of service, deference and
self-abasement. Young admitted that this strategy did not work for most black
men. Young says that most black
men hide behind militant and, presumably, wrong-headed solutions. Black men don’t
keep their eyes on the prize Young said. Neither vengeance nor getting even was
important. Black men didn’t understand that the prize was redemption. Redemption was the prize that white folks give
blacks who do white folks bidding and serve white folks interests.

By defending
Trump’s racist Charlottesville narrative on Meet
The Press, Andrew Young sought to find his redemption. But in reality, Andrew Young cannot be redeemed. Like
most of the SCLC-type preachers that white folks put in charge of black people,
Young is nothing more than a hedonist and a moral, intellectual and physical
coward. Creatures like these will never find redemption for their betrayal of
black people.

Secularizing The Plantation Political Philosophy

From the 1950s,
Andrew Young’s ‘plantation’ political philosophy ___ a product of Martin Luther
King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference ___ has kept the majority of black
people quite content with white racism, white supremacy and white privilege. But
in the post-civil rights period, black preachers seemed to be losing their
appeal. Black men were being subjected to a ‘war on drugs’ resulting in their mass
incarceration. In 1988, John Conyers successfully secularized the plantation
political philosophy by substituting the promise of a heavenly reward with the
idea of ‘black reparations.’ This ‘pie in the sky’ promise was concocted with
the assistance of the Congressional Black Caucus and Democratic Party. But in November,
2016, Conyers and the black political leadership were faced with the defining political
challenge of a generation ____ the challenge of halting America’s headlong
march into fascism. And the black
Democratic Party leadership failed to meet the challenge. Like Andrew Young, Conyers was too old, too decrepit,
too tied to the Democratic Party establishment to act. Thus Conyers and the
Congressional Black Caucus handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

For his cowardly
betrayal of his black Detroit constituency, John Conyers should resign. Possibly,
someone else with the guts and manhood to prevent the suppression of Detroit’s black
vote in the future might take his place.

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Andrew Young to Chuck Todd: “I saw Steve
Bannon carrying a book some months ago. I read that book and I was just
thrilled.”

If Andrew Young
wants to read a thrilling book, relevant to black people, he should read, Blood
And Brotherhood: A Novel Of Love In A Time Of Hate.